Ministry of Culture’s Scheme for Financial Assistance to Cultural Organizations with National Presence

Deadline: 15 September 2015

The Ministry of Culture is currently inviting applications from the Cultural Organizations for grant of sanction under the Scheme of Financial Assistance to Cultural Organizations with National Presence.

The objective of the Scheme is to provide financial assistance to Cultural Organisations with National Presence to meet the expenditure to be incurred on the cultural programmes during the financial year 2015-16.

The financial assistance would be restricted to 67% of the total project.

Eligibility Criteria

• The applicant Organization should, in order to qualify for grant, have a properly constituted managing body or governing body or governing council with its powers, duties and responsibilities clearly defined and laid down in the form of written constitution.
• It should have facilities, resources, personnel and experience to take up the project for which grant is required.
• The Applicant Organization should be registered in India having an all India Character with national presence and should have operational presence at national/international level.
• The activities of the organization should be primarily or significantly Cultural.
• The Organization should have capacity to do at least 20 events/programmes in a year.
• The Organization should have adequate working strength artistes/staff/volunteers.
• The Organization should have spent Rs.1 crore or more during 3 of the last 5 years on cultural activities.
• Financial assistance will be given for all or any of the items listed below:
• Normally upto 25% of total Govt. grant may be utilized for Maintenance (Salary of staff, Office Expenses, Miscellaneous Expenses) and Construction/Repairs/Extension/Restoration/Renovation of the Building of the Institute/Organization/Culture focused on promotion of Art & Culture.
• Normally upto 75% of the total Govt. grant should in any case be utilized for Payment of Honorarium and other miscellaneous expenses on showcasing/production of events important to the preservation or promotion of cultural heritage and arts including Research Projects on promotion of Art & Culture.

Application Guidelines

• Applicants are requested to download the application form available on the website.
• Applicants must include the following documents along with the application form:
  • Constitution of the Organization.
  • Constitution of the Board of Management of Governing Body and particulars of each member.
  • Copy of the latest available Annual Report.
  • A detailed project report including:
    1. Description of the project for which assistance is required along with its duration.
    2. Financial statement of the project giving item wise details of recurring and non recurring expenditure separately, and
    3. The source(s) from which counterpart funds will be obtained.
  • A statement of income and expenditure of the applicant organization for the previous three years and a copy of the balance sheet for the previous.
  • An Indemnity Bond in the prescribed Performa on a stamp paper of appropriate denomination.
  • Details of the bank account in the prescribed proforma to enable electronic transfer of sanctioned grant.

How to Apply

• The applications duly filed in prescribed proforma should be recommended by the cultural Department/Wing of the concerned Central Government/State Government/UT Administration or any of the Zonal Cultural Centers of the Ministry of Culture/National Academies including National School of Drama (NSD), Sangeet Natak Academy (SNA), Lalit Kala Academy (LKA), CCRT, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGCNA) and bodies of similar stature and should be routed through these Organizations only.
• Applications must be submitted via mail.

For more information, please visit MOC.